About This Game

It`s Halloween and the students of magic at Little Springs High and Innsmouth Academy are about to honor an ancient tradition: sneaking into school after midnight, turning themselves invisible, and scaring the living hell out of each other!

Hide and Shriek™ is a one vs. one multiplayer romp played out in ten minute matches. Your objective is simple: be a mischievous little rascal and scare your opponent half to death before time runs out! If there is no clear winner when the timer stops, the player with the most points wins the game. Points can be acquired by scaring your opponent, luring them into traps, or performing an ancient ritual.

There is just one catch: you are both invisible!

You will need to use cunning traps and potent spells to reveal your opponent. Once you spot them, sneak up on them and give them a good scare! Just remember they are looking for you too, and if you`re not careful you might be the one jumping in your seat!

Play with friends or strangers in ten-minute one vs. one multiplayer matches!

You are both invisible! You will need all your cunning to spot your opponent: look for doors opening, objects flying in midair, or traps being sprung!

Over thirty different spells to discover, each with their own impish effect: blind your opponent, booby-trap doors, unleash a demon upon them, and much more!

Shriek at your opponent to scare them! Use scary masks of famous characters like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, or use skulls and zombie heads that can be modified with accessories like gooey eyeballs, bloody hatchets, and much more!

this game is abandoned. Hide and Shriek is a 1v1 game about two students at opposing schools being invisible and having a game afterhours. The game play with scoring by either tricking your opponents with traps (via rigging them along the ground, doors, cabinets, etc) and by finding your invisible opponent and shrieking them, 3 shrieks in a row and you win automatically!

Each match lasts 10 minutes and all 10 of those can be filled with tense searching and hoping that your next touch isn't going to throw you across the room by a gust of wind, or that cabinet you touched might electrify you, or even that noise you heard is your invisible rival opening something right next to you unknowingly.

It's a fun little game, an added bonus if you're a fan of The Secret World in which this game has goodies for, the only downside is possibly the lower population of players further down the road after halloween.

Edit: As of late November I've found the game a bit more difficult to find players with. So having a friend to play with you would likely be the best idea!. It was okay. Jumpscares, but they are cheesy. Admittedly, I jumped a few times, but the effect wears off quite fast and I haven't play it that long. It had a weird learning curve and is still fun if you play with friends that get scared, but if no one screams then it's not rewarding.. tl;dr version: Is this the kind of game you'll play for ages and have ranked tournaments with months from now? No. Is it $5 worth of Halloween entertainment for the next month or so? Absolutely!

Hide and Shriek is a very well balanced 1v1 scarematch game where you have to either outscore or outscare (or ideally both) your opponent. The fact that resources are randomly distributed - even the runes you use to craft spells are randomly chosen at the start of the match - means that there's no one preferred location or ideal loadout you can use. Having to continually scramble about looking for resources and never quite having the right spell components in place keeps it from being too comfortable at any point. (It is admittedly true that sometimes the RNG blesses you with abundant resources of exactly the right kind for your strategy but you can never count on this being true.)

The way the match feels will vary wildly depending on the chosen tactics of the two participants. For example, two people who enjoy turtling or ambushing will feel very lonely and a bit silly after a while if they don't switch tactics. But this is part of the appeal of the game. It prioritizes thinking on your feet and making use of what's available and adapting to your opponent rather than twitch reflex competition. The benefit from skill plateaus quickly - beyond a basic knowledge of how the game works that's required to compete at all, greater skill simply doesn't give you the overwhelming advantage it does in other games. You still face the exact same limits as your opponent.

While this game does have some jump-scare elements, I've found it's pretty rare to be totally surprised. It's more often an "oh **** I hit a trap nooooo" and then the other player finishes me off while I'm stunned. The fact that you're able to strike back on equal terms suppresses a lot of the overwhelming sensation of some jump scare games.

To get back to the tl;dr, yeah, this is probably not a game I'm going to play for more than a couple of weeks around halloween. But I definitely feel I'm going to get my money's worth from it.. you can't find anyone when u go on public match. NEW REVIEW (free): totally worth downloading and having some fun with your share of shrieks.

OLD REVIEW (before free): Hurts my heart not recommending this game, it's amazing, but is \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665ing dead.
Now, if you have a fair share of friends to play with, just buy it!
Even knowing after playing this you won't be friends anymore, though.. Fun little game that have you jumping in your chair when you get shrieked!
Recommended!. I think this game is a riot. So fun and it's got a great premise. I'd pay money for more maps. Maybe bigger ones that could support more players. It's still awesome even with the lack of content though.. Even when this game starts to be repetitive, It's still enjoyable. Game mechanics is very easy - gather orbs, set traps and scare your opponent. How to win? One match has ten minutes. Both of you have to collect points. The winner is the one who has more points or scare opponent three times in a row.

Positives:
+ graphics
+ game mechanics
+ idea
+ Free to Play
+ bonus content for The Secret World

Negatives:
- when opponent leaves, you will lose all gathered points in current match
- despite It is free to play, there is low number of players